"Even Stevens..."

"Even Stevens"...an expression traced back to 1748 that has come to mean equal measures or fair shares...It became memorable with the "Seinfeld" episode highlighting that whenever something negative happened to Jerry, an equal positive was right around the corner...I believe this...

 

I've heard of periods when the "Mars is in retrograde"...that is characterized by things being"off-balance"...

 

I have to sit back and laugh when a series of "less than positive things" occur...great things are next...Last week was one of those weeks...

 

Friday, tennis partners and I (finally) had time to play...it was sunny everywhere except for right over the slow-drying courts...the time before that we tried to play the weather forecast one half hour before said no chance of rain for the tennis courts location...after we hit two strokes it started to pour for the rest of the evening...

 

I was driving home Saturday morning and I had two choices...pay to drive on the Turnpike or use the free Interstate...expecting no commuting traffic I got on I-95, and came around the corner and traffic was stopped due to a large accident...

 

That night, thinking about the onset of the comfortable fall weather, I decided to take my new bike out of the garage for a ride (not really used after purchasing a new one after the previous one was stolen) the following day...the following day I realized that my home had been robbed again and the new bike was stolen...

 

While I was outside discussing the robbery with my neighbors who had also been robbed at the same time, the sun shined brightly on my re-painted house...it showed that the painters had only painted to as high as they could reach on the first floor for that wall...

 

The following day I went to my morning radiation, (happy that I was half way thru the 9-week regimen and the end was near)  to find that the operating computer system had broken, and then it was still broken the following day to extend the date of the end of the treatment...

 

With newly found available time I decided to go to a meeting...I was first in line as I approached one of our many Intracoastal "draw bridges"...it went up to allow a sailboat to pass under it about ten minutes later, and then it started to close, and nearly made it...then it broke with only a few feet, up, left...it remained in this position (with cars lined up behind me) for an hour, and I missed the meeting...I decided to go to another meeting and the railroad crossing "arms" went down to warn about an approaching (long) freight train...and I missed that meeting too...

 

Before deciding on my radiation therapy, I had been told that I was in such good shape that I would probably not experience negative symptoms like "elimination urgency and frequency"...that was not the case while I waited, unable to move my car!

 

All week my "luck" remained the same...GREAT things are coming!!!